SpaceX OT Network Engineer at SpaceX designing and supporting mission-critical networks for launch and production operations. Responsible for network design, hardware deployment, automation, and operational support.
Responsibilities
Design and implement highly available networks, carefully balancing various routing and redundancy technologies depending on unique requirements between production and launch.
Design and maintain mission data center and site networks in accordance with company network standards. Collaborating with adjacent infrastructure and enterprise teams.
Evaluate, procure, and deploy network hardware including switches, firewalls, multiplexing and SDWAN appliances.
Contribute to ever-maturing network automation tooling; implementing configuration analysis, linting, and scalability into the deployment framework.
Plan and coordinate network outage windows with stakeholders to perform software updates, hardware refreshes, and general network maintenance (sometimes on weekends and evenings).
Troubleshoot and resolve network-related issues, publishing root cause analysis (RCA) documentation and hosting retrospective data reviews.
Provide direct networking support during launch and test campaigns and be on-call or provide real-time support as networking responsible engineer during operations.
Proactively tailors network monitoring to provide ever more valuable operational telemetry with emphasis on issue detection prior to operational impact.
Continuously create and update network documentation, including architecture overviews, design drawings, and operational procedures.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to proactively identify and resolve potential technical issues with network designs, especially in regards to systemic, cascading failure modes, and superficial redundancy.
Perform job walks with customers, vendors, and contractors to gather network requirements and create implementation plans.
Ensure networks are configured and maintained in compliance with industry and cybersecurity standards (e.g., ITAR, ISO, NIST), with particular attention to controls network segmentation and security.
Qualification
Bachelor’s degree in computer scienceExtensive hands-on experience designingHands-on experience with Cisco
Required
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other STEM discipline and 3+ years of professional network engineering experience; OR 5+ years of professional network engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
Preferred
Extensive hands-on experience designing, deploying, supporting, and troubleshooting Layer 2 and Layer 3 networks in latency sensitive and/or industrial environments.
Functional experience with multiple network vendors either in production or lab environments.
Experience with GitOps and Infrastructure as Code frameworks, both as user and contributor.
Strong understanding of the OSI model and network standards.
Hands-on experience with Cisco, Arista, and Juniper data center class switches.
Experience with Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) and fiber optics infrastructure.
Extensive knowledge of common enterprise and media protocols.
Experience with switch port security features, network segmentation, QoS, multicast, and redundancy protocols.
